Another UNESCO World Heritage site, the Borobudur Temple located in Java, Indonesia is a famous Buddhist temple that dates back to the 9th century.

Borobudur is a ruined Buddhist shrine built by the Shailendra dynasty popularly known for its intricately carved stone blocks. These stone block illustrates the episodes in the life of Buddha. This papercraft doesn't include the whole temple but only covers the Buddha statues within.

Eureka is the mysterious young girl who co-pilots the strongest LFO in the series (Nirvash typeZERO). LFO stands for Light Finding Operation and that is bascially what they call their mecha in the series.

We've got a new Japanese designer named masayu-i who has brought to our attention his miniature navy destroyer ship.

It's an Atago class destroyer papercraft based on the real guided missile destroyer used by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (Japanese Navy). The word Aegis is not part of its name/class title, it's a misnomer to call it an "Aegis destroyer"

Aegis refers to a highly advance weapons system integrated into ships to protect it against missile and air attacks. Besides Japan and US, four other countries (Spain, Norway, Australia, and South Korea) also use this system in their Navy. Follow the link below, then scroll down close to the bottom of their page, goods are there.

Instead of the regular battle poses (usually standing) for their papercrafts, our friends at Mabikaze Paperworks has a cute new model called "Chiaki". She's in a sitting position on top of a wooden crate, waving (gesture) one hand, and her legs bent at a 90° angle.

As the photo above suggests, you can sit Chiaki on your desk or any flat surface with a 90° angled edge. Prices haven't changed, all papercrafts from Mabikaze are still at the very reasonable $3.

If you're new to their site, there's 3 free papercrafts for you to try before you buy. Just follow the linkw below and the free models should be the first 3 on top.

In Japanese folklore Kitsune is a type of yokai (more on the spiritual entity side) believed to possess high intelligence, magical powers, and long life. Kitsune is also the Japanese word for "fox". Again, not much harm from this fella, they're more on mischief.

An improved version of Icthus7's Princess Peach papercraft, this one is based on the princess' appearance in the Super Princess Peach game for the Nintendo DS.

This improved version of Princess Peach has two poses, the first has her hands clasping together and the other holding an umbrella. The designer has also included two hairstyles - regular, which is spread out in the back and the other one is a ponytail

Namahage is a grotesque looking demonic ogre that wears straw garments and holding wooden knives and pails - it goes around visiting village houses at night, dancing along as it gives out strange menacing cries.

06 May 2009

Hitotsume-kozo (trnsl. "one-eyed boys") is the Japanese version of the Cyclops monster. They're roughly the size of a young child. The Hitotsume-kozo is one of the more gentle monsters in Japanese folklore, wouldn't really harm you but will occasionally give out a scare hear and there.